Pikantus

[Ølmatt]

Greetings fellow brewers, 

A novice getting in way over my head here, but has anyone successfully cloned Erdinger Pikantus? My all time favourite drop. I'd be in heaven if I could match it constantly.

[Classic Brewing Co]

1 hour ago, Ølmatt said:

Greetings fellow brewers, 

A novice getting in way over my head here, but has anyone successfully cloned Erdinger Pikantus? My all time favourite drop. I'd be in heaven if I could match it constantly.

Welcome to the forum @Olmatt, I certainly haven't but a quick Google search brought this up, there are plenty of others there too.

Erdinger Pikantus Dunkler Weizenbock recipe

Cheers

Phil

[Ølmatt]

Thanks Phil!! Have you given it a go? Great find, I could find Aventinus clones, which is also heaven in a glass, but not the Pikantus. 

I have two admit though, it looks well beyond my current abilities and setup. I feel like I need to attend brewers school to do that beer justice!

[Classic Brewing Co]

2 hours ago, Ølmatt said:

Thanks Phil!! Have you given it a go? Great find, I could find Aventinus clones, which is also heaven in a glass, but not the Pikantus. 

I have two admit though, it looks well beyond my current abilities and setup. I feel like I need to attend brewers school to do that beer justice!

No I haven't,  but maybe I should,  sounds good. 

You will find it is not as hard as you think it is,  the help & support on this great forum will easily guide you through the process. 

Stay tuned & you will produce amazing results. 

 

[RDT2]

On 6/12/2024 at 1:02 PM, Classic Brewing Co said:

Welcome to the forum @Olmatt, I certainly haven't but a quick Google search brought this up, there are plenty of others there too.

Erdinger Pikantus Dunkler Weizenbock recipe

Cheers

Phil

That looks  now on the long list of brews!

Edited June 30 by RDT2

[Classic Brewing Co]

1 hour ago, RDT2 said:

That looks  now on the long list of brews!

Yeah, I reckon it looks really nice.

[Aussiekraut]

On 6/12/2024 at 3:02 PM, Classic Brewing Co said:

Welcome to the forum @Olmatt, I certainly haven't but a quick Google search brought this up, there are plenty of others there too.

Erdinger Pikantus Dunkler Weizenbock recipe

Cheers

Phil

That sounds quite interesting. I even have all malts besides the Roasted Wheat and CaraMunich I but I can use medium crystal or maybe even Caramunich II instead of the latter and I guess roasted barley or Carafa III could replace the roasted wheat since it isn't a huge amount in there and it's mainly for colour anyway.

A nice wheat beer is overdue and I may as well go for gold here  The only issue is the packaging. The only suitable bottles I have left atm are about to be used up with the rum barrel porter. I just don't see the point of making a HW, if it clears in the keg and you can't really swirl up the yeast. 

[Classic Brewing Co]

5 minutes ago, Aussiekraut said:

That sounds quite interesting. I even have all malts besides the Roasted Wheat and CaraMunich I but I can use medium crystal or maybe even Caramunich II instead of the latter and I guess roasted barley or Carafa III could replace the roasted wheat since it isn't a huge amount in there and it's mainly for colour anyway.

A nice wheat beer is overdue and I may as well go for gold here  The only issue is the packaging. The only suitable bottles I have left atm are about to be used up with the rum barrel porter. I just don't see the point of making a HW, if it clears in the keg and you can't really swirl up the yeast. 

These days my bottle stash (empties) is down to a minimum, I either sold or gave away hundreds of Longnecks/Grolsch/PET & now I am down to about 30 x Hefe' 500ml/2 x boxes near new PET & a few asst European swing tops. I usually prefer the 9.5l Corny over bottles but they are handy for stouts/wheat as you say.